Swedish moderate right leaders hand over power to hard Left

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    After Months Of Struggle, Sweden Forms A New Government
    January 18, 2019

    What is important about this vote is that a number of smaller center-right parties essentially switched sides in order to help Stefan Lofven back into power. They said they'd tolerate a center-left coalition rather than risk a center-right government that would've relied on support from the hard-right nationalists. The prime minister has had to compromise, too. He said he'll cut taxes and relax the country's strict labor laws, moving away from his typical Social Democrat agenda, which many think is controversial.
    https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/6864...ggle-sweden-is-poised-to-get-a-new-government

    Some voters are saying these moderate right politicians they elected have betrayed their party.
    (probably reality is these politicians weren't really actually that conservative in the first place and the voters should have known better)

     
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    Thingamabob Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Hard left"? I don't know about you but the hardest left I can think of is Vänsterpartiet and don't see Sjöstedt getting much of this 'power hand over'.
     
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    Government is really trying to provoke us (they call it non-racist) by appointing one dumbom, cultural minister after the next one. This one is a rasta child and last two were an immigrant Pakistani and an immigrant African ... or something like that? The right man for the job was just coincidently non-European, right?
     
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    Meanwhile ....... I don't know where the police were. Harassing SD supporters?

     
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    .... "hard left".... lol
     

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